May 21, 2011 West Point Nebraska Hail and Supercell and Other

Not a ton to say on this one. It was another cold core setup over
eastern NE and found larger hail again. Found these just east of West
Point. My search was limited due to lightning from some convection south
of the northward moving supercell I was chasing.

Unlike the last cold core supercell, this one was producing very odd
spikey hail.

The biggest one I found in my limited search there. Probably like last
time and around 3 inches the longest way. I have a cooler with pop and
ice on most chases. These two both I didn't even plan to chase, so never
had the cooler. Figures find the cool hail both times and would have
liked to have had the cooler.

The supercell finally matured nicely and turned right and just about
produced a tornado. Here I thought, wow I actually got some decent
structure on a day I hadn't planned to chase. Then I see images from
Kansas and Oklahoma of amazing supercells. Wasn't exactly a day screaming
amazing storms would happen.

Sunset from back near town. Some crazy mammatus formed over Omaha
around now and would have been an amazing twilight subject had I been
there. Instead I chase the next three days in Oklahoma and se KS
basically coming away from those days with just a nice mammatus display.
It's sorta annoying to realize I spent about $400 for those days to come
back with mammatus not quite as nice as what happens in Omaha the night
before I left. Just a little. Not to mention the other screw ups like
missing big time tornadoes. Weeeeeeeeeee.

This was on the 24th coming back home, from Newton KS. Iridescence
behind an updraft.